Protein-testing lab Adaptyv banks €34M for agent-run experiments
The Lausanne startup raises €34.35M so AI agents can order their own lab experiments.
Masayoshi Son circles humanoid maker 1X with $6B majority bid
SoftBank is circling OpenAI-backed humanoid maker 1X at a valuation far below its earlier ask.
Life-organizing AI assistant Instinct banks $350M at $2.5B
A year-old assistant startup jumps to a $2.5B valuation on the back of a $250M Series B.
British cloud upstart Nscale lands Anthropic’s $45B compute pact
Anthropic locks in six years of compute with the British startup in one of AI's biggest capacity deals.
Socure banks $156M to put AI agents on financial crime cases
The identity firm adds agentic AI to fraud investigations with a $156M raise and a Fravity buy.
Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face deal hands it the keys to open AI
The chip giant's reported $12.9B deal for the open-source AI hub would remake the model economy.
Ringg lands $10M from Peak XV for voice agents at work
The Indian voice AI startup, processing 20 million call attempts a month, extends its Series A to $15.5M.
Korean AI assistant Wrtn scores $72M to chase global expansion
The Series C lifts South Korea's leading generative AI startup past a 1 trillion won valuation, reports say.
Ginkgo and ARPA-H alumni launch Transfyr with $25M seed
General Catalyst leads a round for a Cambridge startup putting sensors and multimodal AI inside scientific labs.
SaaS obituary aside, Linear commands a $2.5B valuation
Business Insider reports the project-management startup doubled its valuation as AI hype fails to kill software subscriptions.
